COSMORAMA

The Museo CA2M presents Cosmorama, a programme that pursues different lines of research and projects related to diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

A cosmorama is an optical device that is used to enlarge objects by means of a camera obscura, but it also alludes to a fun place in which the world’s most striking landscapes and monuments are magnified.

Based on this idea, the museum has devised a series of programmes and workshops that explore functional (physical and intellectual) diversity and social inclusion as a means of visibilising experiences that use the transformative capacity of art to test social imaginaries that address the complexity of contemporary life.

Through a variety of systematic educational activities, and in partnership with different organisations and associations, the museum presents a series of projects related to seclusion.

In partnership with the  ONG Solidarios para el Desarrollo, the Museo CA2M has launched a drawing contest I Certamen de Dibujo ) for all the prisons in Spain. It has also developed a course entitled “In & Out”, whereby artists (to begin with, Antonio Ballester Moreno and Clemente Bernad) will visit the Soto del Real prison to share their work. This same prison and others previously hosted an introductory course on art history by Tania Pardo. Also with this NGO, throughout the year the museum will hold different encounters with open-regime  prisoners visiting the Museo CA2M for the first time.

In partnership with the Fundación Gabeiras, the Museo CA2M has participated in “La voz que nadie escucha”, a programme for women prisoners that consists in reducing sentences through workshops designed to raise cultural awareness.

The museum also has a permanent research and study group on Art and Seclusion, formed by the experts Mery Cuesta, Pilar Soler, Inés Plasencia, María Rufilanchas and Tania Pardo, and this will be the theme of this year’s Image Study Workshops, now in their 30th edition.